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that's the worst thing to do, even president obama two years ago advocated extending the bush tax cuts because that's a wet blanket on the economy. we have to keep taxes low, expand job opportunity. >> moderator: governor king? king: nobodiments -- nobody wants to raise taxes. the situation with the debt, though, is one that we have to look at revenues as well as cuts. impossible to do it otherwise. i'm engaged with a projectx called the simpson bawls, a bipartisan effort led by alan simpson of wyoming, and bowles of south carolina. they propose cutting tax rates, eliminating loopholes, deductions, and exemptions, and reducing rates, but taking 8% of the revenues that are generated by that process, and putting that gex p against the debt. that's proven, responsible, and nobody wants to raise taxes, but we have to talk seriously about this, and some frame work like simpson bowles or the other plans out there on a bipartisan basis, i think, are going to be necessary to solve this problem. i think what we'll end up with is a fair tax system and lower rates across the board and more fairly
that's the worst thing to do, even president obama two years ago advocated extending the bush tax cuts because that's a wet blanket on the economy. we have to keep taxes low, expand job opportunity. >> moderator: governor king? king: nobodiments -- nobody wants to raise taxes. the situation with the debt, though, is one that we have to look at revenues as well as cuts. impossible to do it otherwise. i'm engaged with a projectx called the simpson bawls, a bipartisan effort led by alan...
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you noted president obama us plan calls for them to -- obama's plan. are you saying you would not, under any circumstance, vote for an obama budget or an obama bill that came to the senate that says we will cut the bush tax cuts and let them expire? >> i think my proposal is the right proposal. i will not vote for of bills that i know have a no chance of passing the house. you saw what happened this summer. they let the bush tax cuts expire over 250,000. full knowledge nothing would happen. the house passed their bill to make the task cuts permanent. they sent it to the senate with full knowledge it would not happen. the time for the no compromise positions is over. we need a compromise. a year ago, i put on the table this compromise. we have to find one, the bush tax cuts are set to expire, and if we do it right, we can avoid defense cuts. if we let the tax cuts expire over $500,000, that raises $500 billion of revenue over 10 years. if we do not come up with a solution, let the bush tax cuts expire, there is have a solution. fix this medicare problem
you noted president obama us plan calls for them to -- obama's plan. are you saying you would not, under any circumstance, vote for an obama budget or an obama bill that came to the senate that says we will cut the bush tax cuts and let them expire? >> i think my proposal is the right proposal. i will not vote for of bills that i know have a no chance of passing the house. you saw what happened this summer. they let the bush tax cuts expire over 250,000. full knowledge nothing would...
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if obama wins re-election, obama is going to be negotiating with probably a republican house and with probably a democratic-controlled senate but a senate where there will be more than 40 republicans who could full filibuster. now if murdoch wins then every republican in the united states senate will be terrified of a primary from a murdoch type, they won't do a thing to compromise with the president. but if murdoch loses then a lot of republicans in the united states senate are going to say well, that kind of tea party politics doesn't work. i can repel such a challenge, and that gives them a little bit more room to maneuver and compromise with the president. i think that's really the most important senate race. >> eliot: michael, i think that is exquisitely important analysis and exactly right. which way the republican party leans after next tuesday does it determine it needs to cut back to the middle and negotiate? or does it feel that the tea party is exactly the most important question of how congress acts and whether or not the president gets things done over the next couple of
if obama wins re-election, obama is going to be negotiating with probably a republican house and with probably a democratic-controlled senate but a senate where there will be more than 40 republicans who could full filibuster. now if murdoch wins then every republican in the united states senate will be terrified of a primary from a murdoch type, they won't do a thing to compromise with the president. but if murdoch loses then a lot of republicans in the united states senate are going to say...
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obama doesn't like it. hillary clinton doesn't like it. she argued to the last breath that you should not stab hosni mubarak in the back. when we finally got back to it, it was a done deal. it was not going to make any difference in egypt. as far as libya, at first it seemed like we got lucky and qadhafi went down easily, you know, in the last couple of weeks, think seemed to have turned around. god only knows what's going to happen in syria. it's much more complex than iraq. we always say we are going to do this and that, the shiites, the police, the sunnis, the stuff, i can say that i spent a lot of time in that part of the world. it doesn't even make sense when you're there, let alone we are sitting back here and thinking bigger than sit there with your wrist for making it all work out. i was going to mention the humble foreign policy. you know, i'm still waiting for my country to rise up and live up the promise of that treaty. >> i think that is what i am talking about. the idea that it would even be desirable for us flip the switch an
obama doesn't like it. hillary clinton doesn't like it. she argued to the last breath that you should not stab hosni mubarak in the back. when we finally got back to it, it was a done deal. it was not going to make any difference in egypt. as far as libya, at first it seemed like we got lucky and qadhafi went down easily, you know, in the last couple of weeks, think seemed to have turned around. god only knows what's going to happen in syria. it's much more complex than iraq. we always say we...
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i agree with president obama. you have do this sooner rather than later. >> moderator: thank you mr. garza and thank you aarp for the questions. as part of tonight debate we ask the viewers to submit questions through klb.com. here is the stewart dyson with the questions. >> thanks. our first question comes from suzanne. she writes, describe a time when you voted against the majority of your party because you felt an issue was so critical to new mexico people that party loyalty took second place? >> moderator: the people want to know, heather? >> wilson: i think there are a number of sometime time the demonstrated my independence. when i was a freshman i forced the speaker to pull a bill because it would have been devastating to our national laboratory. i was the only republican to vote against the spending bill in 2004 because i didn't think it treated education properly. there was insufficient funds for title i for our schools and kids that were low-income. the third example on children health insurance. i was o
i agree with president obama. you have do this sooner rather than later. >> moderator: thank you mr. garza and thank you aarp for the questions. as part of tonight debate we ask the viewers to submit questions through klb.com. here is the stewart dyson with the questions. >> thanks. our first question comes from suzanne. she writes, describe a time when you voted against the majority of your party because you felt an issue was so critical to new mexico people that party loyalty took...
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back in 2008 barack obama winning by ten percentage points. unemployment in the state essentially mirroring what we have nation wild, 8.2% -- nationwide, 8.2%. terry madonna, neighboring ohio is getting an awful lot of attention with its 18 electoral votes. what is so different between ohio and pennsylvania that makes the buckeye state more of a battleground than pennsylvania at least at the moment? >> guest: yeah. yeah, well, the essential difference is that ohio has a good many be more sort of moderate independent voters at this point which are likely to vote either republican or democrat. as i pointed out a moment ago, the reason the democrats have done well is they've captured the suburbs of our state in these last, in the presidential elections in recent years, and that's been the defining difference. you've got that big swath of in the middle of ohio in columbus that is the battleground area there. obviously, with the cleveland area up in the northeastern part of the state being democratic and the cincinnati part out in the southwest bei
back in 2008 barack obama winning by ten percentage points. unemployment in the state essentially mirroring what we have nation wild, 8.2% -- nationwide, 8.2%. terry madonna, neighboring ohio is getting an awful lot of attention with its 18 electoral votes. what is so different between ohio and pennsylvania that makes the buckeye state more of a battleground than pennsylvania at least at the moment? >> guest: yeah. yeah, well, the essential difference is that ohio has a good many be more...
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i was liaison with greg are for the transition from the obama , i mean, from the bush to the obama administration transition period. typical there's no presidential candidates even a nominee of the party do not get really what president elect bush rem rabble cawed the "sexy stuff in the briefings. romney is getting these now the nominee of the party are offered intelligence briefings by career cia people. it they are analytical what we used to briefings which is one of the -- cia days i'm trying to get from my memory. they are analytical. they are not operational. they are not giving a lot of specific details about operation that only happens once the election takes place. once, you know, in the case of a new president obviously president obama was re-elected it will not happen. but that's when they get the review all of the ongoing covert action programs. that's when the president elect president obama goes to the briefings on the enhanced -- "washington post" and "new york times" probably has 85 percent of it. that was the first briefings. that's when the -- that's when presidential candidates
i was liaison with greg are for the transition from the obama , i mean, from the bush to the obama administration transition period. typical there's no presidential candidates even a nominee of the party do not get really what president elect bush rem rabble cawed the "sexy stuff in the briefings. romney is getting these now the nominee of the party are offered intelligence briefings by career cia people. it they are analytical what we used to briefings which is one of the -- cia days i'm...
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the same thing with president obama. the one thing that he needed was a moment to look presidential, and you know, terrible as this storm is, people are viewing it as so. he is the president in a tragedy. he's working with a republican governor a high profile republican governor, who made the pitch for his opponent at the republican national convention. so this, i think there is no question that right now this benefits the president. if there is a political lens to look through i think it benefits the president. it's hard to see how mitt romney gains much from this stalled this break in the action. >> eliot: david, i could not agree more. i think this is exactly what the president wanted. he looks presidential. he works across party lines. he gets to say to the public, i'm dealing with human concerns, human emotions, the tragedy that mother nature has thrust upon us i'm doing what public interest requires. andy explain to me chris christie's analysis. wait a moment. when romney is making it a tighter race than anybody th
the same thing with president obama. the one thing that he needed was a moment to look presidential, and you know, terrible as this storm is, people are viewing it as so. he is the president in a tragedy. he's working with a republican governor a high profile republican governor, who made the pitch for his opponent at the republican national convention. so this, i think there is no question that right now this benefits the president. if there is a political lens to look through i think it...
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real he voted with barack obama 95% of the time. which is the most -- president president obama 95% of the time and i believe i better represent the values and the principles of montana when they say enough is enough. get off of small get -- >> moderator: i believe so you a followup. >> congressman rehberg first. do you have any idea how much money has been spend by your campaign or even some of the pac money that backs you even with the ads that say that you have not approved the message? >> i do not. >> senator tester. tester: our budget around $10,000. that's the money that i raised to put my ads on the tv. i would anticipate that the third party money coming in the secret dollars, the corporate money, maybe from a foreign country, probably double that. >> that's what our estimate sighs in a little bit of research this afternoon show it was double for what that was. >> if you want, i can show you my budget was $8 million. i can't begin to tell you what kind of outside spending is done. i have to tell you it's not about campaign s
real he voted with barack obama 95% of the time. which is the most -- president president obama 95% of the time and i believe i better represent the values and the principles of montana when they say enough is enough. get off of small get -- >> moderator: i believe so you a followup. >> congressman rehberg first. do you have any idea how much money has been spend by your campaign or even some of the pac money that backs you even with the ads that say that you have not approved the...
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under obama, millions of people can't find work. and more families on welfare and a record number of americans on food stamps. mitt romney understands business, knows how to create jobs, and get our economy moving. he's done it before, he can do it again. >> paul: james, good message? >> well, i think so. the second half of it was positive and the first half, the secretary of business idea, it's a number of the-- one of the number of signs suggesting that the obama campaign thinks it's losing where they're throwing out ideas late in the campaign as a kind of a disorganized panicked quality and as the ad says, another bureaucracy is not the answer. >> paul: don't we have a secretary of commerce that's supposed to be a secretary of business? >> and we don't even need that one so the idea that we want to add another. who knows? a secretary of business under an obama administration, making sure that alternative energy companies getting more advantage over other types of firms? i mean, yikes. >> paul: my only problem with that ad i think
under obama, millions of people can't find work. and more families on welfare and a record number of americans on food stamps. mitt romney understands business, knows how to create jobs, and get our economy moving. he's done it before, he can do it again. >> paul: james, good message? >> well, i think so. the second half of it was positive and the first half, the secretary of business idea, it's a number of the-- one of the number of signs suggesting that the obama campaign thinks...
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why did the obama administration it do more -- why did not the obama administration do more for poor communities given his work as a community organizer? some insight from your white house position. >> if you looked, and going to quote one of my colleagues, you can go on the web site of our institution, cbp.org you will find a number of papers but look at the impact on poverty of the stimulus, the recovery act. the recovery act lifted millions of people out of poverty. expanded the earned income tax credit. if you are not working, it did not help you. but a lot of people kept their jobs. the child tax credit was made refundable down to lower income levels. lifted a lot of people of poverty. the tax credit helped low-income workers, later the payroll tax credit helped. the expansion of unemployment insurance. critical. you heard, we will probably launch market poverty went up and 2011. on question only, if that is true, one of the reasons is because we pulled back some of the safety net in terms of extended unemployment insurance programs running out for people. in a labor market but
why did the obama administration it do more -- why did not the obama administration do more for poor communities given his work as a community organizer? some insight from your white house position. >> if you looked, and going to quote one of my colleagues, you can go on the web site of our institution, cbp.org you will find a number of papers but look at the impact on poverty of the stimulus, the recovery act. the recovery act lifted millions of people out of poverty. expanded the earned...
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it's barack obama and john tester. and if you're satisfied of that record of having the government placing themselves between the patient and the doctor or the patient and their hospital, then there's that path. having the government think they can buy their way into prosperity, having the government believe they can take a small of your small business through a death tax having the government believe they can intrude in our lives. we don't have an energy policy we have an environmental policy costing us jobs and millions of dollars and it's happening all over the nation. the other path is prosperity, freedom, getting government aul off our backs. it's of liberating main street. you can support wall street, you can support main street. we have tax uncertainty. when i go around and ask the question are you better off than your parents or grand parents? ask the followup question. do you think your children are going to be better off than you? no hands go up because everybody is worried about the direction this country is
it's barack obama and john tester. and if you're satisfied of that record of having the government placing themselves between the patient and the doctor or the patient and their hospital, then there's that path. having the government think they can buy their way into prosperity, having the government believe they can take a small of your small business through a death tax having the government believe they can intrude in our lives. we don't have an energy policy we have an environmental policy...
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president obama has three stops in ohio. coming up in about 15 minutes here on c-span, we will take you to the first stop of the day in hilltard outside columbus. the first lady michelle obama is campaigning in virginia today. at 5:30 eastern, we will take you to petersburg where she will be speaking with supporters. tonight on c-span, mitt romney and paul brian will be joined by their wives for a rally in west chester, ohio. another big names are appearing including condoleezza rice and senator john mccain this evening at 7:30 eastern and we will have that live on c-span. while we wait to hear from president obama in ohio, part of this morning's "washington journal," good morning to you. i want to assure you that 2012 battleground map we have been featuring for the last week or so here on the "washington journal." assuring the swing states in this election. this morning on the washington journal, we want to hear from the voters in the non-yellow states. everyone else in a blue, give us a call. we want to hear what you think
president obama has three stops in ohio. coming up in about 15 minutes here on c-span, we will take you to the first stop of the day in hilltard outside columbus. the first lady michelle obama is campaigning in virginia today. at 5:30 eastern, we will take you to petersburg where she will be speaking with supporters. tonight on c-span, mitt romney and paul brian will be joined by their wives for a rally in west chester, ohio. another big names are appearing including condoleezza rice and...
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when barack obama came to iowa, he worked obama hard. i bumped into him at the check- in desk of the holiday inn. he said, "you're mike glover, we have an interview set up. let's go in the bar and do the interview now," so we did. a couple of his letter, and invitation to go to the white house holiday reception. and remember looking around the white house >>, thinking, he has come along way. i think barack obama understands subject i will put him on the past two that nomination. he keeps in touch with all here. he understands that i will put him on the past that he is on. >> ordinance, a democrat plan. >> dan is on our democrat line. onler: romney or flip-flops' issues and the changes his mind. hultgren will that -- how will that be sent to voters in iowa? guest: iowa votes tend to punish tended to not consistent on the issues. they understand the issues and falls in close. " workmen voters in any other state i have spent in her, and i have been in all 50 karen politics. the fall elections closely and to understand where the candidates a
when barack obama came to iowa, he worked obama hard. i bumped into him at the check- in desk of the holiday inn. he said, "you're mike glover, we have an interview set up. let's go in the bar and do the interview now," so we did. a couple of his letter, and invitation to go to the white house holiday reception. and remember looking around the white house >>, thinking, he has come along way. i think barack obama understands subject i will put him on the past two that nomination....
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president obama will be here to stay and -- mitt romney will be here monday and president obama will be here tuesday. it is an interesting debate over what the recall told us about the presidential election. you can overstate the results. it was pretty clear in the recall fight that some voters work voted against the recall process. they did not think it was appropriate. you had an exit poll from the recall in june and 15%-20% of the people voted for scott walker said they favored barack obama as president. it has been pretty consistent that 1/10 of the electorate, 9% or 10% say they approve of scott walker and barack obama. he becomes was the perfect barometer. republicans have had success winning elections in the last entry years in wisconsin. they have a motive database that will turn out. they also have paul ryan on the ticket. both sides have reasons and positive indicators to look at going into this election. most recently, the obama victory in 2008 and the republican victories in 2010 and 2012. host: new berlin, wisconsin. you are on the line. go ahead. caller: can you explain
president obama will be here to stay and -- mitt romney will be here monday and president obama will be here tuesday. it is an interesting debate over what the recall told us about the presidential election. you can overstate the results. it was pretty clear in the recall fight that some voters work voted against the recall process. they did not think it was appropriate. you had an exit poll from the recall in june and 15%-20% of the people voted for scott walker said they favored barack obama...